Video is not just for Cats When Twitter announced the Vine product that allows you to share 6 second videos with friends, you may have thought as I did that the whole genre of app development was getting a little…
What can you get done in a day, or a weekend? Today, I learned how to call my phone automatically today with a REST API and to play background music when the caller picked up. Yeah, you say, that’s easy…
Folders, or Apps? You spend most of your time with your smartphone. Do you spend any time thinking about how to arrange the information there so that every time you pick it up, you know where to find what you’re…
Is there an Easy Solution? The biggest challenge for most businesses is getting from “this is a nifty silver bullet” to “this service is an integral part of our business” I bet you’ve been there, either as the buyer or…
What is the “API of Me”? When you think about browsing the web on your computer, tablet, or mobile device, you undoubtedly think about the ads presented to you, the information stored by companies whose websites you visit, and the…
I believe the next generation address book – or contact management play – will have more in common with oAuth data providers than with the traditional rolodex. Yet it will need to be as easy to use as the existing…
Ray Ozzie appeared out of the Seattle mist today to share a very important lesson of startups and of business in general. He shared the story of how Lotus Notes started – and it sounded a lot like other stories…
Beta Customers are the Best Test Customers You Have In Steve Blank’s excellent blog post on Startup First Principles, he describes a startup as “an organization built to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.” A key driver in…
photo by If you could have your ideal day, what would it look like? Jason Womack, an author, motivational speaker, and productivity expect, asked me to answer this question for his new site Here we go … It’s…
